NewZealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy.

NewZealand's most popular sports are rugby (primarily rugby union but also rugby league), soccer, (the most popular sport amongst children), cricket, and netball (the sport with the most players); golf, tennis, rowing and a variety of water sports, particularly sailing.

NewZealand is world-famous among glider pilots for hosting the 1995 Gliding World Cup at Omarama in North Otago near the centre of the South Island.

In 1978, the Broadcasting Corporation of NewZealand (BCNZ) was established, and in 1980, TV One and South Pacific (known once again as TV2) were merged into a single organisation, Television NewZealand (TVNZ).

In 1989, a new government agency, called the Broadcasting Commission or NewZealand on Air (NZOA), took over responsibility for the television licence fee [now called the broadcasting fee] which was distributed on a contestable basis to programme makers, This was to ensure a minimum level of local content in the increasingly commercialised television sector.

In real terms, this meant that public funding of broadcasting in NewZealand was greatly reduced by the time the broadcasting fee was finally abolished in 1999 and replaced with direct funding from the Governement.

Radio NewZealand also receives a funding boost of $2.84 million to enable it to: increase the amount of regional and culturally diverse programming available; ensure valuable audio heritage is archived and protected; provide audio-on-demand through www.radionz.co.nz; and expand Concert FM to the West Coast.

According to Iranian news agencies quoting the Iraqi newspaper Sout al Iraq, the daughters of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein are in talks with the government of Qatar, to acquire 55 percent of the shares of satellite TV news channel al-Jazeera.

Broadcasts were interrupted shortly after the station's official launch because the transmitter was overheating, and the cause was eventually traced to a faulty capacitor which has been replaced.

Broadcasting in NewZealand: A 2003 Stock-take is intended to provide a common starting point for thinking about the future direction of broadcasting in NewZealand.

Tourism NewZealand, on behalf of an inter-government cultural working group, commissioned a research programme to gain a better understanding of the current demand for cultural tourism products and to identify any gaps in supply that may exist.

The objectives of the survey were to identify how the public defines NewZealand's culture, to measure the value NewZealanders place on culture, to gauge levels of interest in culture and cultural activities and to measure perceived and preferred levels of media coverage of cultural activities compared with sport, business and gardening.

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The respective boards were asked to reflect NewZealand's identity and culture, and to encourage NewZealand programming within their mandate to operate in a commercial manner.

Broadcasters operating under warrants issued by the Broadcasting Tribunal on 1 July 1989, were entitled to a licence under the Radiocommunications Act.

NewZealand On Air's primary source of revenue is the PublicBroadcasting Fee, currently set at $110.

In NewZealand the relatively small population means that broadcasting personnel are closely in touch with their audience, whose demand for a high-standard broadcasting service presents financial problems.

Formed in the summer of 1838 after a parent NewZealand Association failed to receive a royal charter to proceed with the settlement of the still independent islands, the company...

Rising between the South Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea, NewZealand is a land of spectacular contrastsfjords and beaches, glaciers and volcanoes, snowcapped mountains and subtropical bush, clear streams and geysers.

First, by ensuring all NewZealanders have reasonable and regular access to broadcasting, we believe that broadcast media can and should be able to represent to NewZealanders the actual scope and variety of the country in which they live.

For example: if broadcasting content is to contribute to a high level of public information and debate, certain standards suggest themselves: comprehensiveness; depth and extent of inquiry; the range of issues and topics covered compared with what is actually going on in the country.

Radio NewZealand's charter is due for its first five-yearly review towards the end of the year and I am working with interested parties to determine the best way of doing this.

Commercial broadcasting is simply to be > defined as broadcasting with commercials on it - no matter who or > what 'runs' the channel.

It's not quite that simple: commercial broadcasting (or not) is determined by the objectives of the channel.

A good book on the history of how NewZealand TV got into this situation is "Revolution in the Air!" by Paul Smith, Longman, Auckland, 1996.

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A New Future for PublicBroadcasting is designed to inform the debate about what happens now with broadcasting in NewZealand.

In a 'mixed broadcasting economy', what in fact is the best mix?— how can publicbroadcasting best be delivered, and what is the role and importance of the publicbroadcaster?

This conference is being convened by a group of public agencies including the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, NZ On Air, RNZ, TVNZ, the Māori Television Service, Te Māngai Pāho and the NewZealandBroadcasting School.

John is currently the Head of News and Current Affairs in Victoria and has been with the ABC for 17 years.

This new division will be responsible for all content development and program research across the ABC's broad range of program genres ­ other than news and current affairs ­ on television, radio and new media.

The new Director of News and Current Affairs, Max Uechtritz has worked in the ABC's news and current affairs departments for the past 14 years, for ten of which as a high profile foreign correspondent or senior executive.

A survey of international publicbroadcasting practices shows that NewZealand is at the end of the spectrum, in terms of regulation and levels of local content.

* Where there is a tradition of publicbroadcasting - strongly evident in almost all countries surveyed - the trend is to maintain and sometimes bolster this tradition against the inroads of commercialism and the proliferation of channels.

New Report Blames Weak Laws For Increasing Violence Against Children In Cyberspace - ECPAT — Weak laws and fragmented industry action is exposing children around the world to increasingly serious violence through the Internet and other cyber technologies, according to a new report released today.

New Country KMPS 94.1 FM, Seattle, Washington, USA announces the debut of the first country music radio station website on the Net.

The Digital Missourian is a full-service newspublication which includes local (Columbia, Mo., USA), national and international news, sports, weather and a full complement of features, with special sections dedicated to elementary and secondary school students and teachers.

The Alliance for Public Technology (APT), a non-profit, tax-exempt coalition of public interest groups whose goal is to foster broad access to usable information and telecommunications services and technology.

General user radio licence—A general user radio licence is granted for the transmission on the frequencies specified in the licence by means of radiocommunication transmitters intended for local-area broadcasting and known as "Low Power FM Broadcasting Short Range Devices", or LPFM Broadcast, in accordance with the terms, conditions and restrictions of this notice.

Broadcast transmitter means a low power FM transmitter or any broadcast transmitter licensed pursuant to sections 48 or 116 of the Radiocommunications Act 1989.

As this page is updated regulary information is subject to change as new information is received.Please note that as most of this information is supplied to us by other people,we can not be held accountable for any incorrect or outdated information.

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In 1986, the British Broadcasting Corporation created the Domesday Book Mark II, an electronic version of the original record of English lands that was written at the instigation of William the Conqueror in 1086.

Thus, while a new newspaper or entertainment site might find it difficult competing with similar sites that are already popular, university sites and the pages of individual scientists exhibit a more egalitarian link growth.

This new advanced page allows you to limit by source (also available with source:), limit by region, limit where search terms are located (headline, url, body, limit by date), and limit by date (at this time June and July, 2003 only).

At least CanWest's problem with publicbroadcasting in NewZealand is largely to do with economic ideologies rather than matters of foreign policy.

Originally from Auckland, NewZealand, Dubber is now based at UCE Birmingham, UK.

You'll read references to new technologies, observations about media, thoughts about radio, considerations of education issues and the odd story from life, but the over-arching aim of this blog is simply to be interesting.

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Access to the Airwaves: Issues in Public Sector Broadcasting

This is an important collection of the papers from a seminar on issues surrounding publicbroadcasting in NewZealand: the balance between freedom of expression and cost, the creative and financing dichotomy, access for Maori and other minorities to the airwaves, and the nature of public sector broadcasting.

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More and more spoken word material is becoming searchable.

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